Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Creative Commons Is Now Leading the Open COVID Pledge — Here’s What That Means

We’re pleased to announce today that #Creative #Commons is taking on leadership and stewardship of the Open #COVID Pledge.

Earlier this year, CC joined forces with an international group of #researchers, #scientists, #academics, and lawyers seeking to accelerate the development of diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutics, medical […]

🔗 https://creativecommons.org/2020/08/27/cc-ocp/

#science #openscience #opendata #research #CreativeCommons

Brexiters "don’t just want what they can’t have, but they want what they don’t want". https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2020/09/back-to-school.html

Sublime from Professor Chris Grey, as always 👏👨‍🏫🇪🇺

#Brexit

Brits, take it from an Aussie: If #TonyAbbott is your solution, you’ve got big problems | Van Badham | #Opinion | The Guardian

Abbott is a walking disaster area both as a gaffe machine and politically. Only the #Tories are mad enough to employ him, I guess.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/04/brits-aussie-tony-abbott-trade-envoy

#UK #Australia

We have another zero in the #Covid19Cymru official figures for deaths today. That's still just one death in the past week.
Number of cases is up to 51, and Welsh government is blaming young people for not social distancing - and likely with justification. By the spread of cases not in the hotspots, I'd say there's still a large element of seeing in from outside (returning holidaymakers mainly).
7-day average: 0.14
Total: 1596

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

– Confucius

#Quote

Obviously this is the sort of thing that is likely to be driving the rise we see in #Covid19Cymru cases at the moment; people returning from Covid hotspots.
I discussed this, in view of the observed wide distribution of a relatively low number of cases, in a recent post.

https://nation.cymru/news/30-cases-in-wales-from-zante-as-some-flight-passengers-criticised-as-selfish-covidiots/

https://wronghands1.com/2020/07/21/arguments-against-wearing-a-parachute/

#Arctic #wildfires emit 35% more #CO2 so far in #2020 than for whole of #2019 | World news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/31/arctic-wildfires-emit-35-more-co2-so-far-in-2020-than-for-whole-of-2019

#Environment #Tundra #GreenhouseGases #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

Machlud haul heno, gyda chefyllau!
Sunset this evening, with horses!
#Ceredigion

The third consecutive zero in the official #Covid19Cymru figures for deaths masks the fact that new cases are going up. 56 today - the highest for some time. They are dotted all over, and that makes me think that the theory that they are caused by people coming back from holidays is quite likely correct. The good thing about that is that local clusters are not appearing, which suggests test-trace-isolate is working in Cymru.
Total deaths: 1595
7-day Average: 0.43 (3 in the past week)

My girlfriend asked me whether I could still do a somersault on the ground, and I think I may now have hurt my back just thinking about it 😄